Hello All...I got a S107 for Xmas and had such a great time with it, for the New Year, I got a Blade 120 SR. Now I can hardly get off the ground again
I am having one terrible time trying to trim this baby. I give it full aileron to the left and it still drifts right. I center all the trims and no joy. Is there a way to get back to factory settings or something. Any help appreciated.

Don't over-control it, and make sure you give the gyros time to calibrate. The moment you plug the battery in, set it down on a level surface (Instructions say to do this within 2 seconds) until you hear the servos jitter, signaling everything's ready to go. If the gyros aren't calibrated right, weird things can happen.

Hello All...I got a S107 for Xmas and had such a great time with it, for the New Year, I got a Blade 120 SR. Now I can hardly get off the ground again
I am having one terrible time trying to trim this baby. I give it full aileron to the left and it still drifts right. I center all the trims and no joy. Is there a way to get back to factory settings or something. Any help appreciated.

Thnx

Inspect the servo and see if there is any hair or debris caught in it. Unfortunately, that's common with linear servos. Also, clean the metallic strip beside the servo, that's what it uses to tell where it is.

Reset your transmitter to zero trim, then re bind the helicopter and let it sit for about 10 seconds before you try anything.

Easiest way i have taught my mates to fly my 120SR (most of them with no rc experience whatsoever, not even cars) is i hold it in my had and ask them to throttle up till its just about the fly out of my hand then i give it a bit of a push up and they are hovering, how long depends on their co-ordination, but i think this might be a good technique for you to learn how it handles in the air. I found it hard to take off from the ground the first few flights cause it would tilt this way and that due to me spooling it up quite cautiously. Now, i just bang up the throttle to get it up quickly, with a little right aileron and i can do it straight up everytime.

If you're trying to trim so that it behaves well on the ground before take off, that won't work. Forget decent ground handling. Get it up in the air about 6 feet and see what needs doing to get a stable hover.

Re-binding (which I thought was not necessary with the stock tx) helps after each new charge. Yet, as soon as I crash (which I am doing a lot of..of course) , I'm back to square one. Guess I'm going to have to get out of the living room. Please tell me that another tx is not going to make any difference.

KNY,
a different TX should not make a difference and you should not have to re-bind it regularly- just once. Can i ask- after you bound it and you popped it up to hover, did it hover reasonably stable all by itself? if all your trims are centred, it should sit reasonably stable in a hover without much input.

if you get drift you need to adjust the links to the swash
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS READY TO FLY
always check the links

aft and right means the links are to short and need to made a turn or 2 longer
adjust one link at time with 0 trim till it stops drifting
best to do this indoors or when there 0 wind
then you can use your trim for adjusting flight in varying levels of wind

Looks like I can't just be a flyer, and will have to get into the mechanics if I ever want to get off the ground (:-)).
Question: While the heli is idle, should the swash be seated level, or at a slight upward angle towards the nose? Is this why I may need to adjust the links? And if so, do I need any special tools?